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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Affairs
• March 26, 2025
• 800 Words • 86 Comments • Reply
The left and right take the same reality-based view of the world but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe Sometimes it helps to pare things back to their essentials, especially when complexity is being exploited not to illuminate but to... Read More
The Media’s Nord Stream Lies Just Keep Coming
• November 14, 2023
• 1,700 Words • 5 Comments • Reply
Why do billionaires and governments scramble to control the media? Because the power over our minds is the greatest power there is Want to understand why the media we consume is either owned by billionaires or under the thumb of government? The latest developments in the reporting of who was behind the explosions that destroyed... Read More
Why the Media Don’t Want to Know the Truth About the Nord Stream Blasts
• April 11, 2023
• 4,000 Words • 160 Comments • Reply
No one but the terminally naïve should be surprised that security services lie – and that they are all but certain to cover their tracks when they carry out operations that either violate domestic or international law or that would be near-universally rejected by their own populations. Which is reason enough why anyone following the... Read More
How the Left Became Cheerleaders for US Imperialism
• October 27, 2022
• 3,100 Words • 17 Comments • Reply
One of the biggest problems for the left, as it confronts what seems like humanity’s ever-more precarious relationship with the planet – from the climate emergency to a potential nuclear exchange – is that siren voices keeping luring it towards the rocks of political confusion and self-harm. And one of the loudest sirens on the... Read More
Can Europe Afford to Turn a Blind Eye to Evidence of a US Role in Pipeline Blasts?
• October 6, 2022
• 2,000 Words • 7 Comments • Reply
If Washington was involved, it would mark a dangerous new stage not only in the Ukraine war but in Europe’s acceptance of vassal status The sabotage of the two Nord Stream pipelines leaves Europeans certain to be much poorer and colder this winter, and was an act of international vandalism on an almost unimaginable scale.... Read More
The ‘humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War
• January 22, 2021
• 1,900 Words • 19 Comments • Reply
The instinct among parts of the left to cheerlead the right’s war crimes, so long as they are dressed up as liberal “humanitarianism”, is alive and kicking, as Owen Jones reveals in a column today on the plight of the Uighurs at China’s hands. The “humanitarian war” instinct persists even after two decades of the... Read More
The Planet Cannot Begin to Heal Until We Rip the Mask Off the West’s War Machine
• November 27, 2020
• 4,100 Words • 6 Comments • Reply
Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies. The state is not primarily there to represent voters or uphold democratic rights and values; it is a vehicle for facilitating and legitimating the concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands. In... Read More
The Task Before ‘Sleepy Joe’ Is to Put Liberal America Right Back to Sleep
• November 6, 2020
• 1,400 Words • 18 Comments • Reply
At birth, all of us begin a journey that offers opportunities either to grow – not just physically, but mentally, emotionally and spiritually – or to stagnate. The journey we undertake lasts a lifetime, but there are dozens of moments each day when we have a choice to make tiny incremental gains in experience, wisdom... Read More
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For Years, Journalists Cheered Assange’s Abuse. Now They’ve Paved His Path to a US Gulag
• September 2, 2020
• 3,100 Words • 133 Comments • Reply
Court hearings in Britain over the US administration’s extradition case against Julian Assange begin in earnest next week. The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares about our increasingly fragile freedoms. A journalist and publisher has been deprived of his liberty for 10 years. According to UN experts, he... Read More
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